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Environment

Anger as HSBC ‘bulldozes’ its coal policy with billion-dollar Glencore deal

Investors rage at allegations bank broke its climate pledge to raise funds for mining giant

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Big Tech

Suicide attempts, sackings and a vow of silence: Meta’s new moderators face worst conditions yet

Hit by workers’ rights lawsuits in Kenya, the tech giant has moved its outsourcing to a top-secret new site – where life is grimmer still

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Environment

Controversial chicken ‘megafarms’ given millions in government handouts

Campaigners call for more sustainable system after revelations that huge farms near the Wye and Severn got £14m in subsidies

The Enablers

Queen Elizabeth’s lawyer helped manage millions for alleged war criminal Rifaat al-Assad

Mark Bridges worked for ‘butcher of Hama’ while advising the British monarch

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Global Health

Kicked out of school for being pregnant: forced tests violating girls’ rights in east Africa

It’s an invasive practice that has been tackled by court rulings and government action. So why is it still going on?

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The Enablers

HMRC prosecutions of tax evasion enablers plummet

Legal actions against facilitators stand at next to nothing – and new figures differ wildly from those previously given

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Environment

JPMorgan investing ‘sustainable’ funds in mining giant Glencore

World’s biggest bank has used ESG funds to funnel quarter of a billion dollars to company causing devastation in South Africa

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Family Court Files

How Melanie Gill became a ‘leading authority’ on parental alienation

Unregulated psychologist’s rise from little-known music promoter to court-appointed expert in a dubious pseudoscience

Cyprus Confidential

The Enablers

Abramovich may owe UK £1bn in unpaid tax

Leaked documents suggest oligarch's billions were managed from UK, undermining offshore tax avoidance plan

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The Enablers

Abramovich evaded millions in VAT with fake yacht hire scheme

Billionaire’s agents designed elaborate scheme to fool authorities – then wrote it all out in emails

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The Enablers

MPs call for investigation into Abramovich’s tax bill

Joe Powell and Iain Duncan Smith call for government probe following revelations by TBIJ

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Family Court Files

Mother wins legal bid to speak out about her family court ordeal

Woman whose rape allegation was wrongly dismissed by judge had to give evidence twice to secure justice

Big Tech

£2bn Meta court case over Ethiopian hate speech clears legal hurdle

Case against tech giant over hate speech and ethnic violence will go ahead in Kenyan courts

Our Impact

Family courts: proposed new rules aim to stop evidence from ‘bogus experts’

Rule-change would make it harder for judges to appoint unregulated experts – but campaigners say it doesn’t go far enough

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Environment

Congo calls off oil and gas auction following allegations of backroom deals

Decision comes after TBIJ’s revelations of preferential treatment and alleged auction-rigging

Explainers & analysis

Environment

Coming home to roost: residents rise up against UK chicken megafarms

Booming poultry industry faces a reckoning as government pressed to finance more sustainable methods

Global Health

India’s drugs industry: how one country took over the global medicine market

Its a huge exporter of generic drugs – but are are they safe? And what could Trump’s tariffs mean for the ‘pharmacy of the world’?

Environment

Why Wall Street’s rule-breaking is everyone’s problem

By neglecting its own rules, the Federal Reserve risks weakening the global banking system

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Environment

Allianz’s board says it’s time to save the planet. They can start with their own investments

The financial giant refuses to insure new oil and gas projects, but its asset management firms are still investing in fossil fuels

TBIJ news

Opinion: Travelling to the US never used to worry me. It does now

The erosion of journalists’ right to report what’s happening is something that should worry everyone

As TBIJ marks its 15th year, our mission matters more than ever

In the spirit of its formidable founder, this newsroom has shown how rigorous reporting can change the world

Beyond the headline: introducing the Bradford StoryHub

A new year-long pilot in partnership with Bradford Community Broadcasting

Annual Report 2024

Read TBIJ's Annual Report for 2024

Silenced Stories

The Enablers

SLAPPs thwarted attempts to stop Al-Fayed, says MP

Reporting on alleged assaults – including against a 15-year-old – were suppressed by legal threats, Parliament heard

The Enablers

Zahawi, Al-Fayed and Ampika Pickston: All the silenced stories

MPs used parliamentary privilege during the SLAPPs debate to reveal stories suppressed by legal threats

The Enablers

TBIJ teams up with MPs to uncover stories silenced by threats

TBIJ spent a year uncovering public-interest stories blocked by legal threats. On Thursday, MPs will use parliamentary privilege to discuss them

The Enablers

How we did it: putting together the Silenced Stories debate

Using parliamentary privilege to reveal what the powerful didn't want us to know

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Global Health

Eswatini’s success against snakebite under threat after USAID funding freeze

Country that ‘achieved the impossible’ in reducing deaths to zero now faces closure of key treatment centre

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Trapped in work

‘I’m horrified’: Chrissie Hynde turns back on ‘ethical’ farm after animal welfare allegations

Ahimsa Dairy Foundation underpaid some workers and left animals to suffer through fatal injury

Global Health

Ex-Trump official and abstinence advocate strikes secretive health deal in Uganda

Key documents relating to Valerie Huber’s Protego project are being kept away from the public eye

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